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Nimbostratus

Mar 21, 2017

What is -secure ?

I am new to irules and tcl . i was given an irule to study where there is this line set password [ACCESS::session data mcget -secure "session.logon.last.password"] i get that we are storin...

Cumulonimbus

Mar 21, 2017

Hi,

For security reason, password is stored encrypted in memory.

If you use the mcget command without secure option, the command will return the encrypted value.

The secure option will decrypt the encrypted password and return the password as entered by the user.

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